YAM Weirdness

[Wilse]

YAM has suddenly started behaving weird on me.
When I try to download my mail, it gets some of it and then hangs.
This only started happening last week and I haven't changed anything in ages.
Anyone have any idea why this might be happening?

Cheers,

[amigau]

try checking disk space where your mail(s) are stored - I've run into something like this when my disk was getting a wee bit too full and I hadn't noticed it - I had YAM running on my dh0: partition and it was too small so I moved everything over and reassigned accordingly - take that, WinBlows! :)

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[Wilse]

amigau wrote:
try checking disk space where your mail(s) are stored - I've run into something like this when my disk was getting a wee bit too full and I hadn't noticed it - I had YAM running on my dh0: partition and it was too small so I moved everything over and reassigned accordingly - take that, WinBlows! :)

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

Hmmm, I'll give it a try, cheers.
(I have to log off from here as I'm browsing on the PC)

[Roj]

This happens to me every now and then. It's caused by some variety of spam
that doesn't have the headers YAM expects. When it hits that mail it just
freezes.

I usually log into my e-mail account through telnet and manually delete the
message which is causing the problem.

...hope this helps.

[shIva]

a nice possibility to solve this problem is to send a signal to the yam process.

you could do this using scout, select yam in the task list, press signal, press ok.
yam reacts with "user aborted" and then works normally again.

[Wilse]

try checking disk space where your mail(s) are stored

Well, I tried it. I deleted about 2meg of old messages - still froze.
I've also tried logging into the server and deleting a couple of 'suspect' messages. There are now only 4 e-mails for me to download, but it still won't let me.

I might try installing the latest YAM beta to see if that solves it.